"CUDA is on its way out"

Anon (no@thanks.com) on 2/9/12 wrote:
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>Don't know about AMP and OpenACC, but when discussing potential implementations
>of an app that would benefit from massive parallelism, the developers with experience
>that I talked to unanimously said to use CUDA unless you absolutely had to run on
>non-NVidia HW. They went so far as to suggest developing/debugging in CUDA and then
>porting to OpenCL if necessary, just because the developer experience is so much better.

Hm, I have heard another story from developers. They are telling me that one or the other is not a big deal. I might get a biased view though, since I am very reluctant to sponsoring anything CUDA-based. I happen to agree with David, and my life is to short to invest in a dying code base. Hence, it may be that developers are telling me what I want to hear, and I haven't really started looking closely at the codes yet (actually I have only looked at coding with CUDA so far, and it looked OK).